I would suggest using Yahoo! Pipes (http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/) for something like this. You can feed it your RSS feed, and add in some logic to strip out extraneous information and the grey boxes.
-Sean --- Sean Hannan Web Developer Sheridan Libraries Johns Hopkins University On Apr 9, 2010, at 10:07 AM, Laura Harris wrote: > Hi, all - I suspect something like this is being done already, so I thought I > would check in and ask. > > Essentially, what I would like to do is display the library's new books on a > web page in a graphic format - I'd like it to look very similar to the sorts > of widgets that GoodReads or LibraryThing users can create. I threw up a few > quick examples here: > > http://gvsu.edu/library/zzwidget-test-171.htm > > Now, we have an RSS feed for our new books (Millennium is our ILS if it > matters), and as I understand it, the images we get from Syndetic Solutions > are parsed as enclosures to that RSS feed. Is there a way to take the RSS > feed, and only show those enclosures (if they exist, and are not the default > "grey box" we see if the book doesn't have a cover image) somehow? > > Or perhaps there's a really easy way to do this that I'm overlooking. > > Would appreciate your insight! > > Thanks,
